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"Tell me, then, what could have driven him to so violent a course, and tell me truly; for some cause there must have been." It must be remembered that, at this period, William had not given up all hope of reconciling the English to his rule. "I know no cause, sire, save " "Save what?" said he sternly, for Etienne hesitated.
You will tell my loved ones at home what you know of me. And they will love you twice as well for it: they will love you in place of me." I hesitated. It was a difficult promise. "If you love me, you must undertake it for my sake." I clung to him and said I would undertake to keep the secret. For ten years I would not say before mother or grandmother where their dearest son had gone.
Gerfaut hesitated a moment and looked at her supplicatingly. "I would obey," said he; "but would you have the courage to order it?" "I allow you to remain until just half past twelve," said she, as she glanced at the clock, which she could see through the half-open door.
"He said, 'Joe, you ought to have been above wanting to marry any woman who was ashamed of you. I wouldn't do such a thing on any account." "He said that?" cried Laura, rather startled. "Yes, and I quite agreed with him I told Joe that I did." "Did he say anything more?" Brandon hesitated, and at length, finding that she would wait till he spoke, he said
"Then you think I should?" asked Giovanni. Corona hesitated; she could not understand why she should care, and yet she was conscious that there had been no such struggle in her life since the day she had blindly resolved to sacrifice herself to her father's wishes in accepting Astrardente.
His son, Alfonso the Chaste, born in this palace, was brought up in a convent near Lugo in Galicia. Upon becoming king he hesitated whether to establish his court in Lugo, or in the new village which had been his birthplace, namely Oviedo.
"Oh, but they are settled!" she told him. "I promised I would, you know." "Then" he looked at her "someone lent you the money?" Something in his tone made her shrink again. She hesitated. "Chris!" he said. Nervously she answered him. "Jack lent me forty pounds." "Jack!" he said. "You weren't afraid to ask him, then?" "Oh no!" she said quickly. "I'm not a bit afraid of Jack." "Only of me, Chris!"
She shuddered, bit her lower lip in an effort to command her courage, and then, wheeling, plunged into the thicket. Again the cat screamed close by but the girl never hesitated in her advance, and a few moments later she broke through the willows a dozen paces from the river bank. Her eyes strained through the night; but no horses were to be seen.
Under these circumstances I hesitated about allowing the initiative to be taken.
Matters might take their course; Arthur would be gratified by this testimony to her family's perfections; John would rejoice in whatever was for his friend's real happiness; to herself, in every way, it would be complete felicity. Still she hesitated.
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